Visiting Artists 2018–2019

Morcos Key

Morcos Key is a Brooklyn-based design studio focusing on visual identities and print + digital systems for arts & cultural institutions, non-profits, and commercial enterprises in North America and the Middle East. Jon Key is an art director, designer, and writer originally from Seale, Alabama. After receiving his BFA from RISD, Jon began his design career at Grey Advertising in NYC before moving on to work with such clients and institutions as HBO, Nickelodeon, The Public Theater, and the Whitney Museum. Wael Morcos is a graphic designer and type designer from Beirut, Lebanon. Wael received his MFA from RISD in 2013, after which he moved to New York and worked with several studios before founding Morcos Key.

Tereza and Vit Ruller

Tereza Ruller (1987) is Amsterdam based independent designer, educator and a co-founder of studio The Rodina. She tests intermedia art strategies in the field of graphic design and investigates theoretical framework around Body presence, Labour, Surface, and Action. The Rodina (Tereza and Vit Ruller) is a critical design studio with an experimental practice drenched in strategies of performance art, play and subversion. Both in commissioned work and in autonomous practice, they activate and re-imagine a dazzling range of layered meanings across, below and beyond the surface of design. The Rodina invents ways in which experience, knowledge and relations are produced and preserved. In their work, Tereza and Vit often explore the spatial and interactive possibilities of virtual environments as a space for new thoughts and aesthetics that come forward from between culture and technology

 

Alex Todaro

Alex Todaro is a nomadic graphic and experience designer who originally hails from Denver, Colorado. Alex’s work combines food, systems thinking, behavioral psychology, performance, and design to create experiences that model group dynamics and social systems. He has been using this work to affect change in organizations like NASA, Meow Wolf, Spotify, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and GE.

Abraham Burickson

Abraham Burickson is the co-founder of Odyssey Works, a collaborative of artists creating performances for small, intimately known audiences. Trained in architecture at Cornell University, Burickson makes work spanning writing, design, and performance. His work has been profiled on NPR’s Studio 360, in the New York Times, Newsweek, Fast Company, and elsewhere. Burickson teaches writing in MICA, and architecture at the Academy of Art University, and maintains a small design practice.

 

Neil Donnelly

Neil Donnelly is a graphic designer who makes books, printed matter, websites, exhibitions, illustrations, and typefaces, often with clients in architecture and art. He has worked with the Guggenheim, Yale University, Domus, Columbia University, The New York Times, Princeton Architectural Press, and Storefront for Art and Architecture, among others. His work was included in the 2012 Brno Biennial of Graphic Design, and he has designed commissioned installations for the Gwangju Design Biennale, the New Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. He has taught courses and led workshops at Yale, SVA, MICA, Parsons, Rutgers, and the University of Illinois, and he holds an MFA in graphic design from Yale. He lives and works in Brooklyn.

Alan Rapp

Alan Rapp is senior editor at The Monacelli Press, where he develops and edits architecture, design, and photography books. As a critic, he has written for Modern Painters, Designers & Books, The Photobook Review, Wired Design, Dwell, Urban Omnibus and other publications, and contributed essays to monographs by photographers David Maisel, Joël Tettamanti, and James Silverman. Rapp holds an MFA in Design Criticism from School of Visual Arts, and leads a graduate thesis seminar at Rhode Island School of Design.

 

Jackie Littman

Jackie Littman is a multidisciplinary designer from Baltimore. She currently works at Huge in DC, applying a user-centric and data-driven approach to the design of elegant interfaces. Previously, she spent 4 years designing sensory experiences and interactive installations at Sosolimited in Boston. Jackie also enjoys experimenting with illustration and creative code. She created The Little Bug, an interactive storybook app, while working on her MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Allan Yu

Allan Yu has felt creatively and aesthetically driven his entire life. But it wasn't until he had gone well down the path of predictability—an education and early career in accounting—that he found the courage to finally break away from the identity his parents, and culture, had prescribed. With a client portfolio that includes the likes of Google and The Line, the Brooklyn-based designer has also observed a daily sketch practice over the past two years in order to confront his fears and to continue pushing himself in new, riskier directions.